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[News] Open Source Skills, Community a Hot Trend

  • Subject: [News] Open Source Skills, Community a Hot Trend
  • From: Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Sat, 15 Dec 2007 08:26:29 +0000
  • Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy
  • Organization: Netscape / schestowitz.com
  • User-agent: KNode/0.10.4
Day hires open source expertise to advance social media software

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| Swiss content management firm Day Software has brought in open source 
| expertise from the Mindquarry project to drive further development of its new 
| social media platform.   
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http://www.computerbusinessreview.com/article_news.asp?guid=94D05A92-3FC0-40DB-919D-36F9BA8F27B6

JasperSoft plugs open source reporting into NetBeans IDE

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| The integration was driven by NetBeans' Strategic Partner Program, which 
| brings together over 500,000 developers who also contribute to and extend the 
| NetBeans IDE.  
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http://www.cbronline.com/article_news.asp?guid=FBCB38EB-78A2-4C80-9733-2F1AA2516FEE


Related:

NetBeans Beta 2 Is Dual-Licensed

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| The NetBeans community has released the latest build of its open source, 
| Java-based integrated development environment (IDE) with, among other new  
| features, a dual-licensing scheme. 
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http://www.adtmag.com/article.aspx?id=21674


Open source to hit $22 billion by 2010. What this means for Red Hat and Novell

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| Interestingly, this number jumps to $41 billion if you add in the $19 billion 
| that enterprises will invest in internal open-source development instead of 
| wasting it on proprietary software licenses, according to Morgan Stanley...  
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http://blogs.cnet.com/8301-13505_1-9806036-16.html?tag=cnetfd.blogs.item


European spend on open source software hits 22bn Euros

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| Rishab Ghosh, a senior researcher at the UN University in Maastricht,
| will tell the Open Ireland conference in Dublin that the spend in the
| US on free/libre or open source software (FLOSS) stands at 36bn
| Euros and accounts for 20pc of software spend in the US.
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http://www.siliconrepublic.com/news/news.nv?storyid=single7850


Open source funding: the complete picture

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| In addition to VC funding, we also took a look at the amounts raised
| by open source vendors via initial public offerings. These figures
| are not included in the totals of $1.89bn or $2.02bn, but for those
| that are interested, between them Red Hat, VA, Caldera, Mandriva,
| Turbolinux and Trolltech raised $319.9m via their IPOs.
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http://www.businessreviewonline.com/os/archives/2007/02/open_source_fun_2.html


Why do vendors invest in open source?

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| The Harvard Business School has published the preliminary draft
| an interesting report that confirms one thing we probably could
| have guessed - that vendors invest in open source for economic,
| rather than altruistic, reasons - and calculates a number of
| things we probably couldn't - such as the fact that vendors
| invested $2bn in open source software between 1995 and 2005.
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http://www.businessreviewonline.com/os/archives/2006/12/why_do_vendors.html


Source of the revolution

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| According to Ghosh, the notional value of Europe's investment in
| free/libre or open source software (FLOSS) today is e22bn,
| representing 20.5pc of the region's total software investment.
| Spending on OSS stands at e36bn and accounts for 20pc of software
| expenditure in the US.
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http://www.siliconrepublic.com/news/news.nv?storyid=single8105

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